Hey, this week we’re getting some other music dorks to fill in, here’s Ed Dudes, who delivered a killer DJ set at Velodrome on Sat:
I went on a bit of a binge this weekend collecting new music when I found this gem deep in Koto’s catalog. Koto was an italo group that produced some decent stuff back in the early 80s, notably “Chinese Revenge.” Unfortunately, the scourge that was the late 80s affected Koto as much as anyone else, and they started producing absolute crap. One such song is Dragon’s Lair. The two producers in Koto must have been huge nerds, because this song is literally the in game text from a 1984 arcade and computer game. Lyrical gems abound: “Please save me. The gate is locked with a key. The dragon keeps it around his neck. To slay the dragon, use the magic sword.”
If you hate Mondays, and I know you do, this is the song for you. It’s so bad it’s good. It’s so awful it’s awesome. As you sip on your Starbucks fair-trade sustainable cafe double espresso cocoa latte and answer emails this morning, imagine yourself slaying a dragon and saving a princess from certain doom. I know I will be.
amazing.
all I want now is to see the movie this belongs in.
September 22, 2008 at 9:08 amCome to Bliss on Saturday, and I promise not to play this song.
September 22, 2008 at 10:50 amthis is laughable. And the funny thing is I bet alot of the aspiring DJs who play serato will read this and download it and bleed our ears in the coming months with it…
Fuck that.
September 22, 2008 at 12:09 pmActually Svet, there was never a Dragon’s Lair movie per se. It was originally an arcade game that used actual hand drawn animation in a sort of choose your own adventure style of play, giving it a much different look and feel than your typical pacman of the day. It was ridiculously successful and spawned a Saturday morning cartoon, which built on the choose your own adventure idea by giving different options to the viewer before each commercial break, and then showing which was the correct one when they came back.
September 22, 2008 at 12:27 pmi played that game as a youngster. i never got past the waterfall/water cave part and i was one pissed off little snapperhead. timeout II
September 22, 2008 at 12:34 pm@Cale
it ran off laser disc. there used to be an arcade called Station Break where Chipotle is now. Dragon’s Lair was the first thing you saw when you walked in the place
@eddie
timeout? as in springfield mall?
I still own the Quest for the Dungeonmaster board game. It’s in my living room!
September 22, 2008 at 12:49 pmI never meant that there was a movie, I just think there SHOULD have been one
September 22, 2008 at 1:02 pmfitsum - yep. many moons ago. you ever go?
September 22, 2008 at 1:09 pmdid I …
September 22, 2008 at 1:26 pmbtw, I was referring to the Chipotle in goergetown on M street. georgetown used to be so 24-7 on the weekends which is really good for you when you’re 14
September 22, 2008 at 1:28 pmKoto is probably the Dorkiest producer on the planet. Dragon’s Liar isn’t even his most embarrassing song. His album art is amazing. He did this song called Jabdah which can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7bKx0-shPI
Everything from the karate outfits which are supposed to be Jedi uniforms to the jumping around, to the cuts to non-liscened Star Wars scenes and that he that calls it Jabdah the hut make for the best video ever.
I unfortunatly have way too much Koto in my record collection. The “New French ‘86″ version of Visitors is his best song in my opinion.
September 22, 2008 at 1:33 pmI cannot believe you posted this song Ed!
September 22, 2008 at 1:40 pmChris is just pissed he can’t afford Serato, so he has to ask me to burn this on CD to bleed our eardrums with at Disco City for the next six months.
September 22, 2008 at 2:01 pmScott,
I would have posted that song, but there are literally no redeeming qualities to it.
September 22, 2008 at 2:02 pm@Eddie
I seem to remember the game being ridiculously dificult and tedious, you had to time it exactly right. I don’t think I got more than like a min into it before I ran our of quarters.
BTW - this is our SECOND video game related post on this site! Check out the first!!
September 22, 2008 at 4:18 pmcale - they definitely should have given you a bigger window to maneuver into the next cartoon. timing it right to hit the right series of cartoon scenes is all it really was. i think it was the most expensive game in there, too. i was a junkie for its love, once. mesmerized by its beauty, was i.
September 22, 2008 at 5:44 pm
This song is not so bad it’s good, it’s so good it’s good.
September 22, 2008 at 8:25 am